Combined paper clip and envelope opener



Apr. 17, 1923. 1,452,341

V. JACQUEMIN COMBINED PAPER CLIP AND ENVELOPE OPENER Filed April 17, 1922 Patented Apr. 17, 1923.

UNITED STATES VICTOR JACQUEMIN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

COMBINED PAPER CLIP AND ENVELOPE OPENER.

Application filed April 17', 1922. Serial No. 553,829.

To" all whom pit may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR JACQUEMIN,

a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certainnew and useful Improvemnets in Combined Paper Clips and EnvelopeOpeners, of which the following a specification containing a full, clear, and

exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in combined paper clips and envelope openers, and has for its primary object the construction of a cheap. and inexpensive device for holding papers together, or securing them to a support, which device is provided with means for opening envelopes and removing thumb tacks.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a top plan vie-w of my device.

F i 2 is a longitudinal section taken on the l1ne2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective, showing the same in position for openingv envelopes.

Referring to the drawings:

4 indicates my'improved paper clip and envelope opener which is made of a thin sheet of resilient material, preferably steel, and is provided with two elastic arms 5 and 6, the arm 5 being shorter than the arm 6.

The arm 5 is provided withan upturned end 7, and the arm 6 is provided with a forked end 8 lyin wholly forward of the upturned end 7. he forked end 8 has two branches 9 and 10, which are spaced apart and are sharpened on their inner edges as at 11. Either one of these may be used as is most convenient for opening envelopes, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The arms or branches 5 and 6 extend rearwardly in curved portions 12 and 13 and are integrally connected by means of acurved portion 14,

which curved portion is the arc' of a true circle. The curved portions 12, 13, and 14 are -integrally connected by meansof abruptly bent portions 15 and 16. By means of the'portion 14 which is bent on the arc of a true circle, and the abruptly bent portions 15-and 16, the arms 5.and 6 posseses the same clamping action which is transmitted to said arms by the uniform springin' or bending action of the portion 14.

y device may be used for clamping papers by inserting them between the arms 5 and 6, or the arm 6 may be inserted under the glass top of a desk, and in which posi-. tion, the papers may be held beneath the arm 5, and the device may be also used as an envelope opener, as illustrated in Fig. 3, and also for removing thumb tacks. After the papers have been inserted between the arms"'5 and 6, the device may be hung up on the wall, or other support if desired, by means of a hook or tack, which may be inserted through the hole or opening 17.

I Having fully described my invention, what I claim is:

A combined paper clip and letter opener comprising a single strip of spring material of uniform width, a substantially semi-circular bend formed in said material at a point other than its center'so as to form a long and a short arm, said arms being tensioned toward each other so as to contact for a portion of their length dnly, and provided with gradually curved drverging portions extending from the contacting portions to the semi-circular portions w ereby the arms lie snugly when in use, and a hort upturned portion formed on the free end of the shorter endwherebythe cli may be applied with out first spreading t e arms apart.

In testimony whereof, I- have signed my name to this specification.

VICTOR J ACQUEMIN. 

